Gareth Porter - Truth-out.org - The report states that Dogan, the 19-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent, was filming with a small video camera on the top deck of the Mavi Marmara when he was shot twice in the head, once in the back and in the left leg and foot and that he was shot in the face at point blank range while lying on the ground. bz

Or Kashti - Haaretz - Education Ministry summons principal of Sderot area high school after school was found to be using book that offers both the Israeli and Palestinian narratives of the Middle East conflict

by Rachel Marcuse
Mondoweiss
"We arrive in Hebron in the bustling commercial area. It feels like a big place and it is -- Hebron is the biggest city in the West Bank with a population of 163,000; about half a million Palestinians live in the city and the surrounding area. We meet "Ali," who, like the other ISM members, has taken a code name. He takes us to the Old City."

by Amos G
"El`Araqib village; Umm Batin near Shoket junction, two homes in El Fur`a, one in Sa`awa, one in El`Uqbis near Hura, a home in `Awajan, and a shop in El Garin;El Fur`a and El Hatane villages."

Ma`an News Agency - “Speaking ahead of the weekly cabinet meeting, Lieberman proposed a shift in the principle of peace talks, which he said ‘must not be land for peace, but an exchange of land and people,’ AP said. The border should be redrawn, Lieberman explained, so Israel`s Arab citizens, who make up 20 percent of the country`s population, would be on the Palestinian side, while Jewish settlements would be incorporated into Israel”

Boaz Fyler - Ynet - Cancellation of settlement heads` delegation to Holland indicates of broader process taking place in Europe, warns EU expert. `Israel not considered legitimate as long as it is an occupier`

Emad Drimly -
Xinhuanet -
"The witnesses said that an elite Israeli army force detonated a bomb at the door of Shelbaneh`s house, arrested his brother who was at the house, then stormed Eyad`s bedroom, and then shot him with three gunshots, one on the neck and two in the chest. The soldiers took the body and left the place."

Ilana Curiel -- Bedouin car pelted with stones during Yom Kippur emergency
While driving back from the emergency room during Yom Kippur, a family from Rahat was pelted with stones that `poured down like rain`

MARK LANDLER -
IHT -
"In Israel, word spread of tentative plans by an Interior Ministry committee for discussion next month of hundreds of new housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want as their future capital."

Ilana Curiel - Ynet - A day after the conclusion of Eid al-Fitr, the village was razed once again. However, as soon as Land Administration members and police officers left the scene, the residents promptly began reconstruction work. The police claim they were taking measures to charge the residents of al-Arakib with demolition expenses, estimated at millions of shekels.

by Human Rights Watch -
IMEMC
"As Muslims around the world prepare for celebrate the Al Fitir Feast, the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine issued a statement calling on the Palestinian people, and their factions, to use this occasion as step towards comprehensive unity among in order to boost their struggle and steadfastness. "

JONATHAN COOK - Counterpunch - Mr al Uqbi claims the right to return to a patch of 82 hectares in the Negev, close to the regional capital, Beersheva, that he says has belonged to his family for generations. But as both the government and the judge in the case, Sarah Dovrat, seem to appreciate, much more is at stake. Should Mr al Uqbi win his case, tens of thousands of Bedouin, who long ago had their properties confiscated, could be entitled to repossess their agricultural lands or seek enormous sums in compensation.

Robert Burns -
Boston Globe -
"The talks will be the first face-to-face sessions between the Israelis and Palestinians since December 2008, but the two sides are far apart on all key issues, so major progress in the early going is seen as unlikely."

Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel -
Haaretz -
"...a long tradition of shooting attacks on cars on the eve of important peace summits. This is what happened before the Madrid Conference, during the Oslo Accords and even prior to the Annapolis conference in 2007."
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by William Parry -
New Statesman
"Musicians have a long history of rallying the public to supporting political causes. The global anti-apartheid movement got the fillip it desperately needed when musicians began supporting it."